{"slug": "ask-hn-who-gets-credits-on-big-math-questions-solved-by-llms", "title": "Ask HN: Who gets credits on big math questions solved by LLMs?", "summary": "A user on Hacker News asks who would receive credit for major mathematical discoveries, such as solving the Riemann hypothesis, if achieved through prompting a large language model.", "body_md": "E.g. what if someone prompts an LLM to solve the Riemann hypothesis using this or that approach; and the model actually solves it. Who gets the prize?\n\nComments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940723\n\nPoints: 2\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-who-gets-credits-on-big-math-questions-solved-by-llms", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940723", "published_at": "2026-07-16 21:48:18+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 22:25:21.291993+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-who-gets-credits-on-big-math-questions-solved-by-llms", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-who-gets-credits-on-big-math-questions-solved-by-llms.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-who-gets-credits-on-big-math-questions-solved-by-llms.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-who-gets-credits-on-big-math-questions-solved-by-llms.jsonld"}}